At some point, if the black community should probably wise up a little and stop spending so much time feeling victimized, and start figuring out a way to try to influence positive change. In my state, Virginia, I believe a black person is about 17 times more likely than a white person to commit a robbery and about 8 times more likely to commit a homicide. Blacks are also far more likely to be victims of these crimes as well. So every day there are black people killing other black people that goes unnoticed and white people killing black people is a pretty rare occurrence. In terms of saving black peoples lives, the much lower hanging fruit is to get black people to stop killing other black people.
I'd assume if the black crime rates went down, that confrontations with police officers would go down too. I don't even know that it is a white police officer thing. Because I've known black police officers here to be pretty racist and profiling against segments of the black population.
White people definitely deserve a lot of the blame for how things all got this way. But focusing on guys like Wilson is not going to touch any of the root causes. Burning down their own communities is also not going to make things better.
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